EA's EARTH & BEYOND SHIPS TO STORES

The first online role-playing galaxy in stores tomorrow 

LAS VEGAS, NV (Sep. 24, 2002) - Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that the massively multiplayer online role-playing galaxy, Earth & Beyond(tm), shipped to stores in North America.  The game is being developed by Westwood Studios(tm) and will be published under the EA GAMES(tm) brand.

In Earth & Beyond, players become captains of their own starships and live futuristic galactic adventures as they explore, trade and fight with thousands of others.  In addition, players will face new challenges over time as the developers add sectors, planets, missions, monsters, characters, features, evolving plot lines and more.

"Earth & Beyond is a big achievement for EA and Westwood Studios," said John Riccitiello, the company's president and chief operating officer.  "We're expanding the persistent world genre with an incredibly deep, compelling game about space exploration."

Gamers can order Earth & Beyond online at www.eastore.ea.com or call toll free at 877-EA GAMES (877-324-2637), or by visiting their local computer games retailer.

More information about Earth & Beyond can be found at the official website: www.earthandbeyond.com.

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ABOUT WESTWOOD STUDIOS

Westwood Studios^TM is a prominent publisher of best-selling PC and next-generation console games.  Formed in 1985, Westwood is the creator of the 15-million + selling Command & Conquer^TM franchise that includes Command & Conquer^TM, Tiberian Sun^TM, and Red Alert^TM 1 and 2 and Command & Conquer Renegade ^TM.  Westwood has also released award-winning titles such as Blade Runner^TM, Monopoly®, and the Lands of Lore^TM series.  Looking forward, Westwood is expanding to new franchises and genres with upcoming titles such as Earth & Beyond^TM.

ABOUT ELECTRONIC ARTS

Electronic Arts (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. The company develops, publishes and distributes software worldwide for the Internet, personal computers and video game systems. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS^TM, EA GAMES^TM, EA SPORTS BIG^TM, and EA.com^SM.  More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://www.info.ea.com.

Electronic Arts, Westwood Studios, Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer Renegade, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert, Lands of Lore, Earth & Beyond, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS BIG and EA GAMES are trademarks or  registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.  EA.COM is a service mark of EA.com Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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